Michelle Chamberland > Michelle's Quotes

“There was something about the moon. The way it reminded me of the hope I sometimes clung to. A sliver of light in all that darkness.”
― Michelle Chamberland, Before & After You

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven

“The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can’t leave yet. I’m not finished falling in love with you.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Sadly, I’ve also learned that sometimes, even when the pain takes your breath away, you have to let the people you love experience the consequences of their own behavior. That one really hurts.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience